Santa Clara Valley Section Annual Report for 2007

    By February 15 of each year, the local sections of the ACS must submit reports of their activities for the previous year to the national office in Washington, DC.  National provides forms for us to fill out by putting them on their "SOLAR" (Submit OnLine Annual Reports) page on their  website. We (the Chair, Past-Chair, Treasurer and Secretary) fill these out. Committee chairs write reports, often illustrated with photos, of their activities for the year, and these are converted to web pages and the URLs are entered into the "Appendix" portion of the SOLAR web page. We no longer ship 3-ring binders to National, although we do make one binder of the material as a permanent record for our own archives.
    As we did beginning in 2004, we are making this material available here on our web site. National allows us to download "printable" versions of the web page forms into which we enter our data, and we present these here, along with the web-page Appendices. The Appendix form that National gets has URLs to these pages typed in by us; here on our web site we have done it with clickable links.

    The complete report consists of four parts:

    Part I is a questionnaire, featuring squares to check and simple numeric answers to questions.

    Part II is the narrative report, written by George Lechner, who is our present Past-Chair, and who was our Chair for 2007. Our web version contains links to the supplementary material, which consists of the reports written by our many committee chairs.

    Part III is the financial report, similar to the tax return that non-profit organizations such as ACS must file. Our Executive Committee feels that this sort of information should not be displayed publicly, so we're not putting it here on our website. SCV members are welcome to attend Executive Committee meetings (see our latest minutes for the time and place of the next one--we meet monthly except for the summer months), and there you may receive a copy of the monthly financial statement prepared by our treasurer.

    Part IV consists of self-nominations for ChemLuminary awards. The form contains application spaces for nearly 30 different awards.
    This year we nominated ourselves for three awards:
       1. Outstanding Event for the General Public Using the Yearly Theme (i.e., The Faces of Chemistry)
       2. Best High School Event
       3. Best Student Affiliate Event
    The form is very lengthy; look for links at the top of the Part IV page that will take you directly down to the sections we filled in to make the nominations.
    Click below for the portions you want to see:

    Part I Questionnaire
    Part II Narrative Report

    Appendices to Part II
        ChemPloyment
         Directory Project
        Hospitality
        Minority Affairs Committee
        Mosher Award
        National Chemistry Week
        Newsletter
        Chemistry Olympiad
        Ottenberg Award
        Radding Award
        Student Affiliates
        Student Interview Workshop
        Web Committee

    Part IV ChemLuminary Award Nomination form

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